Both Parties are the Enemies of the People

The Republicans are self interested and the party leadership cynically advances business interests and the country club entitlement mentality cynically using social and religious issues to hold together shifting coalitions of the angry.

The Democrats are the party of socialistic reform, trying to wield the power of the state to remake America into an egalitarian society by promoting federal power. They don't appear to realize that power once aggregated is never relinquished and the power once given to a central authority is seldom given back. One day that power may be wielded against them, they will not like it much then....

Both parties chuckle while excluding or minimizing the effect of all 3rd party efforts or co-opting them (the tea-parties). This situation appears resistant to change. An angry impotent and ill-informed electorate throws the bums out at every election, switching like a schizophrenic from one bad strategy to another back and forth over and over.

Many people are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. There is no party for them, and both parties of looters are there to make sure it stays that way.

There does not appear to be an end in sight.

The Tea Party

The tea party is an angry populist movement. Give us a double dip recession and hyperinflation, and the collapse of the economy and there is a real revolution brewing. Revolutions can be peaceful, but this one won't be. These are Americans, and Americans are armed to the teeth. They have also been watching two wars overseas, and understand the limits of modern armed force. They view the government as the enemy and won't hesitate to take up arms against federal authority. They may not win, but the rebellion if crushed will change America forever, turning it into another European nanny state with cameras in every closet.